The Senate in Illinois approves another plan to regulate firearm dealers, after Governor Bruce Rauner vetoes a similar plan back in March. The Senate voted 35-18, in favor of the measure on Wednesday, which would require the Illinois State Police Department to license gun-shop owners for $1,000 for 5-years. The plan also would provide a penalty for unreported-private transfers of guns. Democratic Senator Don Harmon of Oak Park, says that his plan answers Republican Rauner’s complaint of the initial measure. Republican Senator Dale Righter of Mattoon says that the legislation punishes law-abiding gun dealers. The Senate also approved another legislation, that would prevent gun transfers, like the one involving the alleged gunman in April’s Nashville Waffle House shooting. Law enforcement officials had confiscated Travis Reinking’s guns, before his father returned them to him.
